10. The Death Episode: YOLO

08/08/19 • 34 min

Thinking about death is one of the best ways to appreciate life. As we round out season 1 with this last episode, we want to leave you with some thoughts on mortality. Isabel has been attending death cafes in the DC area and Meronne has been attending a number of funerals and these have helped us both think about life and the funeral industry and how we commemorate people's lives. There is a saying in Bhutanese culture that goes: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily. We agree.

Find a Death Cafe near you: https://deathcafe.com/

WeCroak app that reminds of your mortality 5 times daily: https://www.wecroak.com/

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

Find a Death Cafe near you: https://deathcafe.com/

WeCroak app that reminds of your mortality 5 times daily: https://www.wecroak.com/

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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9. The Growth Episode: Do We Ever Grow Up?

We associate a lot of things with growing up: becoming more mature, more independent, more wise. But does living more life actually promote these qualities in people? Do you need to have suffered to achieve the elusive state of "wisdom" or can you live a perfectly charmed life and still end up wise? In a society that glorifies youth and youth culture, are these traits we even aspire to have anymore? There are so many ways in which the natural, linear narratives we build for ourselves are false, and we delve into them in this episode.

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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11. The Rachel Dolezal Episode: Is Trans-racial a Thing?

Welcome to the second season! So...we didn't mean to make this a clickbaity episode to kick off the second season. We really just wanted to have a discussion about transracialism - honestly when we were brainstorming for this episode, we were just trying to come up with the one thing we disagreed most on. And this notion of transracialism seemed to be the thing. In this first episode with new co-host Deondre' Jones, we go in deep on what race really means, who gets to define your identity, and why being able to define yourself is an integral part of being human blah blah post racial utopia blah nobody reads to the end of these descriptions anyway.
Links:
Original interview with Rachel Dolezal getting outed as white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKRj_h7vmMM
Vice interview with Rachel Dolezal talking about the distinction between Black and African American and whether she would get reparations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76IPVdkDZ4
Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.